GREAT LITERARY SCHOLAR
SIR SIDNEY COLVIN DEAD Bp Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. The death is announced of Sir Sidney Colvin, aged 82. Sir Sidney Colvin was one of the great literary scholars of the latter part of the nineteenth century, and students of the Romantic Revival in English poetry are his debtors for the excellent study he wrote on John Keats for Morley’s Englishmen Of Letters series. He also edited a fine collection of the poet’s leters. Colvin’s “Life of Landor” is also a useful work for literary scholars. He was a friend of R. L. Stevenson, and many charming letters were written to him from Vailima. Colvin wrote a great many scholarly articles for English periodicals.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 May 1927, Page 11
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118GREAT LITERARY SCHOLAR Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 May 1927, Page 11
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